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LX. On the Cultivation of the true Samphire, or Crithmum 

 maritimum. In a Letter to the Secretary. By John 

 Braddick, Esq. F. H. S. 



Read August 6, 1816. 



Dear Sir, 



In compliance with your request, I send you a statement 

 of the method adopted by me for cultivating the Crithmum 

 maritimum, or Rock Samphire. 



I must premise that the plant I am about to treat of, is 

 very different from the Samphire which is usually sold in 

 the London markets ; that is an annual, which grows in salt- 

 marshes, and is called Salicornea herhacea, or Marsh Sam- 

 phire. My plant is perennial, and grows in the clefts of 

 rocks on the sea shore : this latter, when cooked or pickled, 

 is crisp and aromatic to the taste, constituting a wholesome 

 condiment ; whilst the former, from its fibrous stringy qua- 

 lity, is, when used for food, extremely hard of digestion. 



I caused a plant of the true Rock Samphire to be taken 

 from the west coast of the island of Portland, with about a 

 ton of the soil and chips of the white rock in which it grew ; 

 these, at an expense of about sixty shillings, I had trans- 

 ported by water to Thames Ditton and placed in my garden, 

 in a sheltered situation, screened from the morning sun, in 

 imitation of the native site of the plant. The ground had 

 been freed by drainage from stagnant water to the depth of 



